Bequest of Robert Venn Carr Jr., University of Maine Class of 1938

Courtesy of the University of Maine Museum of Art Permanent Collection

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In memoriam

Sylvester Pollet

June 28, 1939-December 20, 2007

Associate Editor of the National Poetry Foundation

Burton Hatlen

April 9, 1936-January 21, 2008

Director of the National Poetry Foundation

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11

Reception and Art Opening at Lord Hall Gallery

Art exhibition curated by Laurie Hicks

Partial digital reconstruction of Bernadette Mayer’s 1972 “Memory” installation

Archival materials courtesy of Bernadette Mayer Papers, Archive for New Poetry, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Plenary Poetry Reading: Fred Wah

Chair: Jennifer Moxley

Group Reading by Queering the 70s Panelists

Chair: Jennifer Moxley

Featuring Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, and Eileen Myles

Open Poetry Readings

Chair: Bill Howe

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THURSDAY, JUNE 12

Panels

01A: Disturbing Language

Marie Buck, “‘BIG APPLE PIE is beginning to appear over words that are negative’: Hannah Weiner’s Use of Symptom to Critique the Abstraction of Materiality”

Brad Flis, “Overflow Crowd to Out(side): Neoliberal City-Subjects and the Modular Piece of Ted Greenwald”

Aaron Winslow, “Writing the Object In/Reading the Subject Out: Representing Labor(ers) in Hejinian’s Writing is an Aid to Memory”

Steven Zultanski, “The Failure of the Domestic: Bernadette Mayer in the Late ’70s”

01B: John Ashbery

Gregory Hazleton, “Ashbery’s Heterogeneous Thinking about Poetry: Environments of Writing in Three Poems and The Vermont Notebooks”

Ross Leckie, “John Ashbery”

Mark Mendoza, “Deprivation and Difficulty: Reading the Ethical Moment in John Ashbery’s Poetry”

01C: John Wieners and Bob Kaufman

Stephen Ellis, “Linkages of Part to Whole: John Wieners and the Capacity to Love”

Thomas Fisher, “Bob Kaufman: The ‘Possible’ of Poetry”

01D: UK Poetries: Peter Redgrove, Barry MacSweeney, Seamus Heaney

James Byrne, “The Poet-Shaman: Peter Redgrove’s ‘Dr Faust’s Sea-Spiral Spirit’”

Jeremy Green, “Barry MacSweeney in the Seventies: Poetics and Aversion”

James Langer, “Seamus Heaney’s Archeological Cosmopolitanism”

Plenary Panel: Black Arts

Chair: James Smethurst

Fahamisha Brown, “A New Black Poetics: Lucille Clifton, Black Arts, and Black Feminism”

Grant Matthew Jenkins, “re: Source: African Contexts of Nathaniel Mackey’s Ethics”

Lytle Shaw, “Performing the Black Arts: Baraka’s Newark”

James Smethurst, “‘Return to English Turn’: Tom Dent, the Nkombo Poets, and Black Nationalism in the 1970s”

Jayne Cortez, Respondent

Plenary Panel: No More Masks!

Chair: Ellen Smith

Annie Finch, “Anthology of Seeds: No More Masks! and the Reflective Power of Editing”

Judith Johnson, “Where Was Our Avant-Garde: No More Masks! and Experimental Traditions”

Ellen Smith, “‘In jail / underground / at war’: No More Masks!, Praxis, and Postmodernism”

Florence Howe, Respondent

Panels

04A: Feminisms: Alice Notley and Joanne Kyger

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Kimberly Lamm, “‘Incidentals in the Day World’: Alice Notley and 1970s Feminism”

Linda Russo, “1970 Summer Bolinas: Buddhism-as-covert-feminism in Joanne Kyger’s Joanne”

04B: Who Can Lift It: Re-Thinking the Long Poem after the Modernist Movement

Justin Parks, “The (cognitive) ‘map of locations’: Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger and the Postmodern Epistemology of Place”

Andrew Rippeon, “‘Somehow not to be accidental’: On Niedecker, on Creeley, and Forms of Tangential Connection”

Richard Owens, “Glasgow Beast: Ian Hamilton Finlay and The Poetics of Aggressive Gardening”

04C: Ronald Johnson

Joel Bettridge, “Ronald Johnson’s Poetic Destiny”

Ross Hair, “A ‘Mosaic of Cosmos’: ARK’s Bricolage Poetics”

Peter O’Leary, “Talking Cosmos: Influencing Ronald Johnson, Deriving Robert Duncan”

04D: Globalism & Empire: Ammons, Pinsky, and Spahr

Piotr Gwiazda, “Culture Poets: Robert Pinsky, Juliana Spahr”

Susannah Hollister, “A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of the Planet”

Panels

05A: Unfamiliarity & Comfort

Stan Apps, “Hypnotist-Collectors: The ‘New Sentence’ in Cage and Silliman”

Michael Clune, “Whatever Charms is Alien: John Ashbery’s Everything”

Aaron Kunin, “Barbara Guest’s Revolutions”

05B: Little Magazines of the 1970s

Barry Alpert: “On Vort”

Lisa Howe, “Anti-poetic Poetry and Women’s DIY Zines: The Case of Lisa Baumgardner’s Bikini Girl”

Brooks Lampe, “‘Please take the lid off my galaxy’: American Surrealism in the Age of Kayak”

05C: Susan Howe

Alicia Cohen, “The End of Art: Susan Howe in the 1970s”

Elisabeth Joyce, “Force Fields: Susan Howe’s ‘Cabbage Gardens’ as Third Space”

05D: Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman

Peter Puchek, “Beat Out of New York: Anne Waldman and the ‘Centerless Sprawl’”

Rebecca Weaver, “A Poem of Community: Anne Waldman’s ‘Billy Work Peyote’ and the Early Years of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Voices”

05E: Erotics, Embodiment, Negation

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Dawn Michelle Baude, “Not Just Randy Animism: The Erotics of ‘Being’ in the Early Work of Gustaf Sobin”

Malgorzata Myk, “Toward a Poetics of the Embodied Outside: Nomadism and Corporeality in Nicole Brossard’s Mecanique Jongleuse”

Sandra Simonds, “Laura Jensen’s Poetics of Negation: Bad Boats as a Response to Robert Bly’s Deep Image”

Plenary Poetry Reading: Bruce Andrews

Chair: Benjamin Friedlander

Plenary Poetry Reading: Jayne Cortez

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Special Group Reading: Grand Piano Contributors

Featuring Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten

Chair: Lytle Shaw

Open Readings

Chair: Bill Howe

FRIDAY, JUNE 13

Panels

06A: Modernists & Objectivists in the 1970s

Patrick Pritchett, “Writing the Disaster: The Scandal of Modernism and the Persistence of the Messianic in Oppen & Palmer”

Judith Schwartz, “‘what is the form/to say it’: George Oppen, Pastoral Elegy, and the Process of Representation”

Jeff Twitchell-Waas, “‘Read, not into, it’: Late Zukofsky”

Matte Robinson, “Reading H.D. in the 1970s”

06B: Charles Wright

Henry Hart, “Charles Wright: Language, Landscape, and the Idea of God”

Gerry LaFemina, “The Deep Image Roots of Charles Wright’s Work”

Joe Moffett, “Pound’s Influence on the Poetics of Charles Wright”

06C: The Avant-Garde, Language, and Opposition

Jeanne Heuving, “Marking the Avant Garde”

Miriam Nichols, “Writing Opposition: Determinate Negation and the Imago Mundi”

06D: J. H. Prynne

David Lau, “J. H. Prynne and John Ashbery: dispars or compars”

Alex Papanicolopoulos, “Damage Makes Perfect: J. H. Prynne’s The Ideal Star Fighter”

Keston Sutherland, “On Jeremy Prynne’s Brass”

06E: Sounding the 70s (I)

Tony Brinkley, “Lyotard’s Cage”

Kurt Ozment, “Decade Confusion: Morton Feldman’s Resistance to Periodization”

Michael Peters, “Lectures from Elsewhere to Hear: Sound Equations of the Quantum Mind/Body in Sun Ra’s Poetry During the 1970s”

Plenary Panel: Periodizing the 1970s

Chair: Benjamin Friedlander

Barrett Watten, “Late Capitalism and Language Writing in the 1970s”

Plenary panel: DC Poetry in the 1970s

Chair: Tom Orange

Joan Retallack, “The New Spirit in Dog City”

Remarks by Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, P. Inman, Doug Lang, and Phyllis Rosenzweig

Panels

09A: Bernadette Mayer (I)

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Peter Baker, “Becoming Bernadette: Experimental Text Production and the Ambivalence of Authorship”

Jasper Bernes, “Bernadette Mayer and the Capitalization of Everyday Life”

Linda Russo, “Noisy Memory: Disturbance and the Reproduction of Lived Space”

Bernadette Mayer, Respondent

09B: Fluxus, Intermedia, and Hypertext

Mark Melnicove, “Bern Porter, Found Poetry, and Appropriative Writing in the 1970s”

Patrick Durgin, “Becoming Literature: Jackson Mac Low and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E of Intermedia”

K. Silem Mohammad, “Bern Porter and Dick Higgins: Blank Structures and Found Poetics”

09C: Charles Olson and Ed Dorn

Aldon Nielsen, “The Ends of the Earth, the End of the Sixties, a Day in Sonoma before Disco Walked the Land and How the New American Poetry Gave onto a Newer”

Christopher Rizzo, “Lost In the Theoretical Shuffle: Olson’s ‘Sudden Decision’ and the Archaic”

Patrick Barron, “Edward Dorn’s Heretical Spatial Knowledge”

09D: Monologue, Myth, Phenomenology

Scott Penney, “Norman Dubie’s Monologues”

Matthew Powers, “A New Mythology for the 70s: Kinnell’s A Book of Nightmares”

Von Underwood, “As if It Lit up in a Gap in Being: Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology, and the Early Poetry of Mark Strand”

09E: Poetry in the World

Chair: Stephen Burt

Timothy Gray, “Fun City: Kenneth Koch among Schoolchildren”

Douglas Manson, “Coach of the Ganglia Frame: on bpNichol’s Small Press Poetics”

Rebecca Weaver, “Funding Verse Versus Phony Affinities: The Apparatuses of Funding Poetry at Minneapolis’ The Loft in the 1970s”

Panels

10A: Clark Coolidge

Michael Golston, “Clark Coolidge and the Allegorical Imperative”

Tom Orange,”Scratching the ‘70s: The Uncollected Clark Coolidge”

Paul Stephens, “Coolidgean Ex-cavations: Landscape, Memory, and Masculinity in the 1970s Poetry of Clark Coolidge”

Clark Coolidge, Respondent

10B: Poetry and Performance

cris cheek, “Before I Am Anything Else: Provisional Transatlantic Communities in Poetic Performance”

Robert Fitterman, “Performing the Grand Piano: A Double-Play”

10C: Alternative Compositional Practices

Bill Howe, “A Study in Efficiency: Card Based Poetry and Robert Grenier’s Sentences”

Rodney Koeneke, “Hannah Weiner and Basic English”

Philip Metres, “Installing Lev Rubinstein’s “Farther and Farther On”: From Note Cards to Field Walks”

10D: Anne Sexton

Wendy Galgan, “Faith, Despair and Hope: Anne Sexton’s The Awful Rowing Toward God”

Susan Gilmore, “Gigs for a ‘Middle-Aged Witch’: Coming of Age with Anne Sexton”

10E: Post-Coyote Poetry

Andrew Schelling, “Post-Coyote Poetry”

James Koller, poet and editor of Coyote’s Journal, Respondent

“In Memoriam Burton Hatlen”

Tribute by Marjorie Perloff

Special Announcement

University of Maine President Robert Kennedy

Plenary Poetry Reading: Ann Lauterbach

Chair: Jennifer Moxley

Plenary Poetry Reading: Nicole Brossard

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Special Group Reading: Washington, DC Poets

Featuring Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, Doug Lang, P. Inman, Joan Retallack, Phyllis Rosenzweig, and Diane Ward

Chair: Tom Orange

Open Readings

Chair: Bill Howe

SATURDAY, JUNE 14

Leave for Colby College Museum of Art

Exhibition of Works by Alex Katz

Selected for the NPF by Lunder Curator of American Art Elizabeth Finch

Sneak preview of “If Nancy Was” exhibition by Joe Brainard

Plenary Poetry Reading: Bernadette Mayer

Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art

Chair: Jonathan Skinner

Plenary Poetry Reading: Clark Coolidge

Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art

Chair: Tom Orange

Gallery Talk: Ann Lauterbach

Upper Jetté Galleries, Colby College Museum of Art

Return Trip to UMaine Campus

Panels

11A: William Bronk

Chair: Demetres Tryphonopoulos

Edward Foster, “William Bronk: Later Words”

Eric Hoffman, “William Bronk, or the Ambiguities: Breaking Against the Waves of Silence”

Burt Kimmelman, “‘I Want to be that Tantalus’: From Worldlessness to Self-Abnegation and Acquiescence in William Bronk’s Poetry of the 1970s”

11B: Periodizing the 1970s: The Adolescence of the Spectacle and the End of the Post-War Boom in Debord, Ashbery, and Others

Chair: Michael Scharf

Joshua Clover, “The Sunday of the Seventies, The Saint of the Negative”

Christopher Nealon, “John Ashbery’s Optional Apocalypse”

Bob Perelman, “Democracy & Bathos: Variations, Calypso & Fugue on a Theme by Ella Wilcox Wheeler”

11C: Charles Bernstein & Ron Silliman

Barbara Cole, University at Buffalo: Poetic Justice: Charles Bernstein’s Inheritance of the Stein Legacy

Andrew Epstein, “‘There is No Content Here, Only Dailiness’: Poetry as Critique of Everyday Life in Ron Silliman’s The Age of Huts”

Scott Pound, “Ron Silliman’s The Chinese Notebook and the Materialities of Communication”

11D: “All Middle”: Tom Raworth & Ted Greenwald

Kit Robinson, “All Middle: On Ted Greenwald”

Keith Tuma, “Tom Raworth’s Writing”

Tom Raworth, Respondent

11E: Hannah Weiner

Jennifer Russo, “‘I am trying to show the mind’: The Development of Hannah Weiner’s ‘Clair-style’”

Sam Truitt, “Hannah Weiner’s Complete Mind”

Jillian Weise, “The Disability Rights Movement and the Legacy of Poets with Disabilities”

Panels

12A: New Narrative – New Sentence – New Left

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Rob Halpern, “New Narrative and the Restoration of ‘China’”

Kaplan Harris, “The Small Press Traffic School of Dissimulation”

Robin Tremblay-McGaw, “Community & Contestatory Writing Practices: New Narrative and the New Sentence”

12B: Bernadette Mayer Roundtable

Chair: Jonathan Skinner

Lee Ann Brown, “Alphabet Bernadette”

Kimberly Lyons, “Studying Studying Hunger”

Jennifer Moxley, “Memory Constructs: From Augustine to Bernadette”

Jonathan Skinner, “Mayer’s Walden: The Thoreauvian Experience in Studying Hunger”

Bernadette Mayer, Respondent

12C: Image, Index, Empire

Bruce Andrews, “Meaning, Motive, Method: Empire and so-called Language Writing”

Laura Hinton, “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Cross-Genre Poetics: Her Late ‘70s Film Shorts and Artist Books”

Deborah Meadows, “On Icons and Iconoclasts”

12D: Elizabeth Bishop and Derek Walcott

Renee Curry, “‘In the Waiting Room’: Bishop’s ‘Subliminal Uprush’ and the Advent of the 1970s”

Marit MacArthur, “Origins of the 747 Poem: Flight and Globalization in Elizabeth Bishop and Derek Walcott”

Sandeep Parmar, “‘The Classics can console. But not enough’: Heroes, History and the Epic in the Poetry of Derek Walcott”

12E: Alternative Compositional Practices (II)

Trevor Sawler, “Poetry and Hypertext: When Literature and Technology Meet”

Heidi Smith, “Renshi: Poetry ‘Linking’ Cultures”

Plenary Panel: Queering the ’70s

Chair: Kevin Killian

Dodie Bellamy, “The Feminist Writers’ Guild”

Kevin Killian, “John Wieners’ Transvestite Passion”

Liz Kotz, “Language & Art at the Beginning of the 1970s”

Eileen Myles, “Queerness, Performance, and Prose”

Plenary Poetry Reading: Tom Raworth

Chair: Keith Tuma

Plenary Poetry Reading: Rae Armantrout

Chair: Benjamin Friedlander

Open Readings and Party

Chair: Bill Howe

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SUNDAY, JUNE 15

Panels

14A: Language Poetry & Theory

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Youngmin Kim, “A Poetics of the Klein Bottle: Poetry, Language, and Poetics in Language Poetry”

Timothy Kreiner, “The Dérive, the 27th Letter of the Alphabet, and Poetics and Politics in Language Poetry and the Situationist International”

V. Nicholas LoLordo, “Reading Seventies Reading: The Yale School and the Language Poets”

14B: Sounding the 70s (II)

Chair: Demetres Tryphonopoulos

Franklin Bruno, “Kenward Elmslie’s Camp Prosody”

Christine Timm, “Do You See What I Hear? When Modern Spoken Word Hits the Stage”

Donald Wellman, “Seventies Prosody: ‘The tone leading vowels’”

14C: West Coast Poets in the 1970s

Bruce Holsapple, “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”

Stephen Motika, “A Poet from Los Angeles: The Life and Work of Leland Hickman”

Mark Silverberg, “Kenneth Patchen’s Last Poem-Paintings”

Panels

15A: Ronald Johnson Roundtable

Chair: Joel Bettridge

With remarks by contributors to Ronald Johnson: Life & Works

15B: James Merrill and Jean Garrigue

Chad Bennett, “James Merrill’s ‘Celestial Salon’: Gossip in The Changing Light at Sandover”

Brett Millier, “Studies for an Actress: Jean Garrigue’s Last Poems”

15C: Sounding the 1970s (III)

Chair: Steve Evans

Charmaine Cadeau, “R. Murray Schafer and the World Soundscape Project”

Ken Sherwood, “The Oral Impulse in 1970s Poetry Revisited”

15D: James Schuyler

Chair: Jennifer Moxley

Chris Glomski, “Material Ecstasies: The Secular Comedy of Jame Schuyler’s Long Poems”

Ben Leubner, “Age and Anxiety: Elizabeth Bishop and James Schuyler in the 1970s”

Michael Roberson, “‘the pure pleasure of simply looking’: Objectivist Sincerity in James Schuyler’s ‘Hymn to Life’”

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Poetry of the 1970s Conference Organizers

Conference Director

Steve Evans

Assistant Director

Jennifer Moxley

Executive Director

Gail Sapiel

Publications

Betsy Rose

Organizing Committee

Carla Billitteri, Steve Evans, Benjamin Friedlander, Jennifer Moxley

Volunteers & Assistants

Michelle Allen, Tony Brinkley, Richard Brucher, Patricia Burnes, Silvana Costa, Alison Fraser, Rebecca Griffin, Hansie Grignon, Judith Hakola, Meghan Hancock, Danielle Hilchey, John Hyland, Naomi Jacobs, David Kress, Danielle Laliberte, Megan London, Elizabeth Maliga, Nicholas Mohlmann, Malgorzata Myk, Stella Santerre, and Kiera Seekins

Special thanks to:

Lynda Claassen and the staff at the Archive for New Poetry, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego, without whose invaluable help the digital reconstruction of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory” could not have been accomplished.

Laurie Hicks, interim director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, MaJo Keleshian, Lord Hall Gallery Coordinator, and Owen Smith, professor of Art History and Digital Art in the Department of Art at the University of Maine and the current Director of the New Media Department, for their collaboration on “The Art of the 70s” exhibition.

Sharon Corwin, the Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator of the Colby College Museum of Art, and Elizabeth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art, for their collaboration on, and generous hosting of, our Saturday morning plenary events.

John Ippolito, Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Maine, Craig Dietrich, User Interface Engineer at Vectors and new media artist at the University of Iowa, and John Bell, Stillwater Research Fellow, for their collaboration on the NPF Conference ThoughtMesh project.

Jim Sharkey, of Folkfilms (www.folkfilms.com), and Rebecca Griffin, for their help in documenting the sights and sounds of the Conference.

Marjorie Perloff, professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University and currently scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California, for her memorial tribute to Burton Hatlen.

Robert Kennedy, President of the University of Maine, and Evelyn Silver, Senior Advisor to President Kennedy, for their generous and timely support of the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation.

Stephen and Tabitha King, for their support of the NPF.

MaJo Keleshian, for designing the Conference poster.

Judith Carr at Hewins Travel for her help with travel arrangments and Tracey Whitten at the University Inn for local accommodations.

Marlene Charron, of UMaine Conference Services, for all her tireless work on every aspect of this Conference.

Cover photograph by Burton Hatlen

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In memoriam

Carroll F. Terrell

February 21, 1917-November 29, 2003

Founding Editor of Paideuma

Founding Director of the National Poetry Foundation

Hugh Kenner

January 7, 1923-November 24, 2003

Senior Editor of Paideuma

Lifelong friend and supporter of the NPF

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DAY ONE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23

Poetry Reading #1: Robert Creeley

Chair: Tony Brinkley

Special Event #1: Tribute to Louis Zukofsky

On the 100th anniversary of his birth

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Robert Creeley, Barrett Watten, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Mark Scroggins

Special Event #2: A Dramatic Reading from Powers: Track, Volume III

For Armand Schwerner

Norman and Alice Finkelstein

Group Poetry Reading #1

Chair: Kevin Killian

Greg Biglieri, Barbara Cole, Kathleen Johnson, Kevin Killian, Jayne Marek, Peter Middleton, Peter O’Leary, Mark Scroggins

Open Reading

Chair: Bill Howe

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DAY TWO

THURSDAY, JUNE 24

Panel Session #1

Panel 1A. Wallace Stevens

Chair: Tony Brinkley

Gregg Biglieri: “Let Be Be the Finale of Be: A Transitional Moment in Stevens’ Poetics of the Copula”

Ross Leckie: “Wallace Stevens Imagining the Postwar”

William Sylvester: “Wallace Stevens and Henry Rago”

Panel 1B. Louis Zukofsky I

Chair: Kenneth Sherwood

Jeff Twitchell-Waas: “‘An eye to action’: Spinoza and the Politics and Poetics of ‘A’”

Mark Scroggins: “‘The Men in the Kitchens’: Zukofsky’s Second World War”

Louis Cabri: “Zukofsky, Myth, and the Inertial Word”

Panel 1C. Mina Loy

Chair: Jamerson Maurer

Jamerson Maurer: “The Becoming-Body of the Loyian Poetic”

Susan Rosenbaum: “Mina Loy’s American ’40s: Surrealist Aims, National Designs”

Suzanne Young: “‘The Compensations of Poverty’: Mina Loy’s Urban Poetry of the 1940s”

Panel 1D. Roethke/Jarrell

Chair: David Adams

Karen Alkalay-Gut: “The Self and the World: Theodore Roethke’s Open House, and The Lost Son”

Suzanne Ferguson: “Letters and/in Poems: Ruminations on Randall Jarrell and Letter-Writing”

Panel 1E. The Visionary Poetics of Robert Duncan

Chair: Jeff Hamilton

Stephen Fredman: “‘Passages of a Sentence’: The Invention of a Visionary Postmodernism in Robert Duncan’s Letters”

Burton Hatlen: “Duncan’s Early Poetry and the Poetics of the Modernist Sublime”

Peter O’Leary: “In My Psycho­logical Concept: Sin and Conflict in Duncan’s Early Poetry”

Poetry Reading #2: Jackson Mac Low

Chair: Steven Evans

Poetry Reading #3: Harvey Shapiro

Chair: Norman Finkelstein

Panel Session #2

Panel 2A. The Second World War: Pound, Jeffers, Everson

Chair: Albert Gelpi

Albert Gelpi: “Pantheism and Pacifism: William Everson and the War”

Robert von Hallberg: “War Poetry: The Pisan Cantos”

Robert Brophy: “Jeffers, Inhumanism, and a War-Driven World”

Panel 2B. African American Poetry I

Chair: Donald Wellman

Grant Matthew Jenkins: “Melvin B. Tolson’s 1940s: An Ethical Experiment”

Astrid Franke: “Beyond The Waste Land and the New Deal: the Modernist Documentaries of Muriel Rukeyser and Robert Hayden”

Fahamisha Patricia Brown: “The Early Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker”

Panel 2C.  Ezra Pound I

Chair: Ellen Stauder

Kathe Davis: “Berryman, Pound and the Imp of the Personal”

Youngmin Kim: “Remaking It New in The Pisan Cantos: Ezra Pound in the 1940s”

Kamran Javadizadeh: “The Mad Poet in the Institution”

Panel 2D. Objectivists

Chair: Lyn Hejinian

Thomas J. Nelson: “Rhetorics of Silence: Objectivists and the 1940s”

Steven Shoemaker: “The Poetics of Silence: George Oppen and World War II”

David Briggs: “Location, Occupation, and Locomotion in Lorine Niedecker’s ‘New Goose’ Manuscript”

Panel 2E. American Poets and World War II

Chair: Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein: “Again I am the death- instructed kid: Harvey Shapiro’s Poems of World War II”

Susan Gilmore: “My poetry for my country: Propaganda as Genre in the World War II Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

Andrew Rosen: “Condition Thyself: Robinson Jeffers Confronting World War II”

Panel 2F. British Poetry I

Chair; Laura Cowan

Bradford Haas: “The Poetry of Morris Cox in the Context of 1940s London”

Jamey Hecht: “Elegies of Two World Wars: Wilfred Owen and Dylan Thomas”

David Huntsperger: “Aestheticism and Loyalty: Basil Bunting’s Response to World War II”

Panel Session #3

Panel 3A. H.D. I

Chair: Albert Gelpi

Barbara Cole: “‘We Know Not Nor Are Known’: H.D.’s Poetics of Negation”

Sarah Graham: “Falling Walls: H.D.’s Traumatised Poetic”

Anne Dewey: “Against Ideogram: The Intersubjective Origins of Language in H.D.’s Helen in Egypt”

Wendy Galgan: “Air Raids, Alchemy, and Redemption: H.D.’s Trilogy”

Panel 3B. African American Poetry II

Chair: Michael Bibby

Aldon Nielsen: “Russell Atkins and the Road Not Taken”

James Smethurst: “Kitchenette Correlatives: African American Neo-Modernism, The Popular Front, and the Black Avant Garde in the 1940s”

Lorenzo Thomas: “Soldiering On: Waring Cuney’s Campaigns”

Panel 3C. Robert Duncan and the Berkeley Renaissance

Chair: Stephen Fredman

Kelly Holtz: “Medieval Frames: Ernst Kantorowicz, the Berkeley Renaissance, and 1940s Transfor­mations in Political and Poetic Practice”

Jeff Hamilton: “Robert Duncan’s ‘Grammar of Poetics’ and the Pre-Chomskyan Linguistic Sublime”

Andrew Mossin: “A Book of ‘First Things’: Homosexual Subjectivity, Poetic Vocation and Revisionist Politics in Robert Duncan’s ‘The Venice Poem’”

Don Byrd: “Cybernetics and the Poetry Of the 1940s: A Proposal”

Panel 3D. Marianne Moore

Chair: John Beer

Ellen Levy: “Theater of Ambivalence: Marianne Moore, Joseph Cornell and Lincoln Kirstein’s Dance Index”

Kirby Olson: “Marianne Moore and the Just War Tradition”

K. Silem Mohammad: “Marianne Moore’s What Are Years? and Nevertheless”

Panel 3E. Beginning in the 1940s I

Chair: Matthew Cooperman

Michael Basinski: “The Mid-1940s: Charles Bukowski’s First Literary Career”

Matthew Cooperman: “Here Then, Here Now: Discursive Centering in the Arc of Theodore Enslin”

Donna Hollenberg: “Robert Creeley’s Role in Denise Levertov’s Post-War Transition”

Panel 3F. International Perspectives I

Chair: Ellen Stauder

Elizabeth Losh: “Temporary Americans: Emigres, Exiles, and the Work of Bertolt Brecht and Max Ernst”

Demetres Tryphonopoulos: “The Homeric Nekuia in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and George Seferis’ The Thrush”

Ela Kotkowska: “Breton, Char, and Eluard: Poetic Acts of Love and Revolt in the 1940s”

Lisa Smorto: “Asphodel: The Dying Gardens of Gottfried Benn”

Plenary Speaker #1: J. Hillis Miller

“The Individual (Poet) and the Community:

Stevens’s and Williams’s Poetry of the 1940s”

Chair: Cassandra Laity

Plenary Speaker #2: Alan Trachtenberg

“The Noir Decade: Historical Perspectives on the 1940s”

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Group Poetry Reading #2

Chair: Susan Schultz

Karen Alkalay-Gut, Robert Archambeau, John Beer, Suzannne Ferguson, Aaron Kunin, Ross Leckie, Kenneth Sherwood, Susan Schultz, Jonathan Skinner, Ellen Smith

Open Reading

Chair: Bill Howe

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FRIDAY, JUNE 25

Panel Session #4

Panel 4A. Wallace Stevens II

Chair: Marjorie Perloff

Joe Arsenault, “Reimagining Bloom’s Reading of Stevens’ The Auroras of Autumn”

Von Underwood, “In the Silence Before the Armies: Wallace Stevens and the Phoney War”

Andrew Epstein, “‘The Vulgate of Experi­ence’: Approaching the Ordinary in Wallace Stevens, Francis Ponge, and Poetry of the 1940s”

Panel 4B. H.D. II

Chair: Anne Dewey

Margaret Anne Smith, “‘Seeking the eternal variant’: The Poetics of War in H.D.’s Trilogy”

Matte Robinson, “The Flowering of the Image: H.D. in the Forties”

Cassandra Laity, “H.D.’s Imagism and Eliot’s Four Quartets: Decadent Bodies and Modern Visualities”

Panel 4C. Gwendolyn Brooks I

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Jeff Westover, “Gender Rebels in the Early Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks”

Lori Bird, “Brooks, Beauty and Bronzeville in the 1940s”

Matthias Regan, “Populist Poetry in Bronzeville”

Panel 4D. William Carlos Williams I

Chair: Iris Ralph

Bruce Holsapple, “Williams and the Vernacular”

Kenneth Sherwood, “From Oral to Aural: The Phonotext and Figures of Sound in Williams’ The Wedge and Paterson”

Matthew Sewell, “‘These Starved and Broken Pieces’: Language and History in Paterson”

Panel 4E. Louis Zukofsky II

Chair: Jeff Hamilton

Jonathan Ivry, “On Zukofsky’s Valentines, with Reference to Shakespeare and Niedecker”

Nick Salvato, “Bottoming Zukofsky”

Panel 4F. Lorine Niedecker and Some Others

Chair: Jonathan Skinner

Jayne Marek, “‘Bird-Witted on Black Hawk Island’: A Poetics of Animals anent Lorine Niedecker and Mari­anne Moore”

Mary Pinard, “René Char and Lorine Niedecker in the 1940s: Transition And Transformation”

Judith Schwartz, “Lorine Niedecker’s New Goose as Pastoral”

Panel 4G. T. S. Eliot

Chair: Donna Hollenberg

Michael Thurston, “Going to Hell in the 1940s: ‘Little Gidding’ and the Necromantic Tradition”

Peter Middleton, “T. S. Eliot and the Ghosts of Modernism”

Poetry Reading #4: Harryette Mullen

Chair: Steve Evans

Poetry Reading #5: Margaret Avison

Chair: Ross Leckie

Plenary Speaker #3: Thomas Travisano

“Making a Postmodern Esthetic: The Early Bishop-Lowell Letters”

Chair: Suzanne Ferguson

Panel session #5

Panel 5A. Literary History in/of the 1940s

Chair: Wendy Galgan

David Adams, “Cronos and Golden Goose: A Chapter in the History of Post-War Poetry”

Robert Archambeau, “New Critics as New Gatekeepers: Yvor Winters and the Canon in the 1940s”

Kathleen Johnson, “The Gotham Book Mart: November 9, 1948”

Brett Millier, “‘Five Under Thirty’: Young Poets in West Greenwich Village, 1940–49”

Panel 5B. Langston Hughes

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Michael Bibby, “‘A fugitive from his origins’: Langston Hughes’s Fields of Wonder and the Racial Uncanny”

Christian Sisack, “‘Ballad of the Seven Songs’: The Songs and Stories of Langston Hughes in the/his Forties”

George Hartley, “Or Does It Explode?: Jazz Politics and Langston Hughes’s Discordant Montage”

Panel 5C. “Feeling Their Way”: Adams, Bogan, Hay, and Lewis

Chair: Ellen Smith

Ellen Smith, “Mimicking Motherhood: Sara Henderson Hay’s Imaginary Son”

Annie Finch, “Leonie Adams’ Incantatory Poetics”

Meg Schoerke, “In Defense of the Poetess: Louise Bogan’s Challenge to The New Criticism”

Marilyn Taylor, “Janet Lewis and the Poetics of Domesticity”

Panel 5D. Beginning in the 1940s II

Chair: Al Filreis

Susan Vanderborg, “‘We Can Play with Them Forever’: Memory and Material Language in Jackson Mac Low’s Early Poetry”

Ann Mikkelsen, “‘Some Trees’: John Ashbery’s Pastorals of the 1940s”

Greg Barnhisel, “Ignoring Your Elders’ Advice: the Early Poetry of James Laughlin”

Arlo Quint, “Bern Porter: Finding Poetry after the Manhattan Project”

Panel 5E. International Perspectives II

Chair: Pat Burnes

Kacper Bartczak, “Avant-Garde as Channel to Historical Trauma: Miron Bialoszewski’s Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising”

Hedwig Irene Gorski, “Wislawa Szymborska and the Context of Primary Witnessing After September 1939”

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei,  “Writing as Reason: Reflections on the Poetry of Miklos Radnoti”

Chi-Gyu Kim, “Kim Ki-Rim, A Poet of the Divided Country”

Panel 5F. William Carlos Williams II

Chair: Albert Gelpi

John Roche, “Poet-Laureate of the Tree Peonies: William Carlos Williams at Linwood”

Paul Stephens, “W. C. Williams, Early Cold War Politics, and the Figure of the Pedagogue”

Bob Perelman, “Williams and Pollock”

Panel 5G. Charles Olson I

Chair: Jonathan Skinner

Michael Kelleher, “Fact, Usufruct, & Dromenon, or The Poetics of the Archive in Charles Olson’s Call Me Ishmael”

Burt Kimmelman, “‘Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself’: Charles Olson, Quantum Mechanics, Epis­temo­logy, Painting, and Avant-Garde Poetics after the Second World War”

Miriam Nichols, “What To Do With Grandpa: Charles Olson and Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths”

Plenary Speaker #4: Marjorie Perloff

“‘In Love with Hiding’: Beckett and the Phenomenology of War”

Chair: Steve Evans

Plenary Speaker #5: Joan Retallack

“Wars We Have Seen: The Politics and Poethics of Gertrude Stein in the Forties”

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Group Poetry Reading #3

Clive Bush, Matthew Cooperman, Jeff Hamilton, Michael Kelleher, Philip Metres, Aldon Nielsen, Mary Pinard, Joan Retallack, Eleni Sikelianos

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Open Reading

Chair: Bill Howe

SATURDAY, JUNE 26

Panel session #6

Panel 6A. The Northern California Poetry Scene in the 1940s

Chair: Jeff Hamilton

Kimberly Bird, “The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy: Northern California Poets After the Bomb”

Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi, “Editing Jack Spicer”

Richard Seddon, “Jaime de Angulo: Shaman of Big Sur”

Panel 6B. Poetry and the War Resisters Internment Camps

Chair: Michael Thurston

Timothy Gray, “Pacific Pacifism: Morris Graves and the New American Poets”

Paul Merchant, “‘Justice will take us millions of intricate moves’: William Stafford and the Commitment to Pacifism”

Philip Metres, “From Utopian Hopes to a Chronicle of Division: William Everson, the Fine Arts Camp, and Pacifist Poetry During World War II”

Panel 6C. Ezra Pound II

Chair: Marion McInnes

Alec Marsh, “The Pisan Cantos and ‘the remains of the old South’”

Robert Kibler, “Visions from the East: Averroes, a Chinese Goddess, and the Redemption of Pound’s System of Spiritual Aesthetic in the 1940s”

Ellen Stauder, “Pisan Prosodies”

Panel 6D. British Poetry II

Chair: Iris Ralph

Christopher MacGowan, “The Legacy of Ford Madox Ford as Poet in the 1940s”

Beth Ellen Roberts, “W. H. Auden’s Queer Relationship with the Jews”

Paul Robichaud, “British Identity and the Poetry of the 194os”

Panel 6E. Beginning in the 1940s III

Chair: Shanna Perkins

Shanna Perkins, “Poetic Inheritance in Berryman’s The Dispossessed”

Brian Reed, “Professor Roethke”

Stephen Burt, “Young Poets and 1940s Youth Culture”

Panel 6F. William Carlos Williams III

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Lytle Shaw, “From Place to Site: Williams, Smithson and The Idioms of Local Intertextuality”

Michael Magee, “Williams, Burke, Ellison: Pragmatism on the Racial Divide in the 1940s”

Carla Billitteri, “Aural Politics: William Carlos Williams’s Aristocratic Revolution”

Panel 6G. Canadian Poetry in the 1940s

Chair: Ross Leckie

Dean Irvine, “An Explanatory Issue: Postcolonial Modernism in Wartime Canada”

Collett Tracey, “Canadian Modernist Poetry in the 1940s: The Importance of First Statement Press”

Margaret Avison, Respondent

Plenary Speaker #6: Alan Filreis

“Modernism and Anticommunism in the Forties”

Chair: Steven Evans

Plenary Speaker #7: Cristanne Miller

“Enchantment and the Ethics of Despair: Moore in the 1940s”

Chair: Ben Friedlander

Poetry Reading #6: Lyn Hejinian

Chair: Carla Billitteri

Panel Session #7

Panel 7A. Poetry in the Japanese-American Internment Camps

Chair: Philip Metres

Bruce Ross,  “Autumn Day Flowers With Thorns: Violet Kazue de Cristoforo and Japanese-American Intern­ment Camp Haiku”

Lawson Inada, “What It Means to be Free” (25-minute video)

Susan M. Schultz, “‘Never to see / the end of this war’: Poetry (Out) of the Internment Camps”

Panel 7B. Muriel Rukeyser

Chair: Astrid Franke

Jenny Goodman, “‘Dear Miss Rukey­ser’: The Relationship between M. L. Rosenthal and Muriel Rukeyser”

Ralph C. Allison, “Muriel Rukeyser’s Pragmatic Turn”

Clive Bush, “The 1940s and Global Crisis: Organic Balance in the Politics and Poetics of Lewis Mumford and Muriel Rukeyser”

Suzanne Churchill, “Rukeyser’s Silences”

Panel 7C. Elizabeth Bishop

Chair: Thomas Travisano

Zachariah Pickard, “Morality and Aesthetics in Jarrell’s Review of Bishop and Bishop’s ‘Cirque d’Hiver’”

Catherine Ramsden, “Damning with Faint Praise: Reviewing Critical Manipulation in the Reception of Elizabeth Bishop”

Francesco Rognoni, “‘A world of books gone flat’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Visits to St. Elizabeths”

Panel 7D. Charles Olson II

Chair: Lytle Shaw

Alan Gilbert, “Olson and Empire”

Barrett Watten, “Olson’s Historicism”

Panel 7E. Reconsiderations: Eliot, Riding, Cummings, Stein

Chair: Anne Dewey

John Beer, “Truth’s Voice: Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Immanent Anti-Poetics”

L. A. Phillips, “‘Unalive’: What Ever Happened to E. E. Cummings?”

Logan Esdale, “Twins, Letters, and Stein’s Ida”

Panel 7F. Poetry and the Bomb

Chair: Michael Golston

Elizabeth Willis, “A Public History of the Dividing Line: H.D., the Bomb, and the Roots of the Postmodern”

Eleni Sikelianos, “Lorine Niedecker’s Birds and Bombs”

Michael Golston,  “W. C. Williams’ Atomic Prosody: The Bomb as Allegorical Form”

Panel 7G. William Bronk

Chair: Burt Kimmelman

Ed Foster, “No Shame in Fact: ‘I Can’t Move Anything in Here Anymore’”

Lyman Gilmore, “Evidence from the Biography”

Randy Gilmore, “Bronk as I Knew Him”

Tributes to Hugh Kenner and Carroll Terrell

Marjorie Perloff, Robert Creeley, Bob Perelman, Burton Hatlen, Laura Cowan

Special Event #3

“One Atlantic: From Bangor to Rio” by Monique Fowler

A play about Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, adapted from their letters, 1947–1957

Monique Fowler as Elizabeth Bishop

Jack Wetherall as Robert Lowell

Production manager: John Vivian

Group Poetry Reading #4

Bill Howe, Bob Perelman, Lytle Shaw, K. Silem Mohammad

Chair: Bob Perelman

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SUNDAY, JUNE 27

Panel Session #8

Panel 8A. Gwendolyn Brooks II

Chair: Lori Bird

Marion McInnes,  “Re-imagining Prufrock at Mid-century: Gwendolyn Brooks and ‘The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith’”

Kimberly Lamm, “Gay Chaps in the Bar, Girls in the Backyard: Gender and Place in Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘A Street in Bronzeville’”

Roger Gilbert, “A Variegated Grace: Gwendolyn Brook’s Poetic Census”

Panel 8B. Kenneth Patchen

Chair: Michael Basinski

Bill Howe, “Kenneth Patchen’s Visual Poetics and the Politics of Anti-War”

Douglas Manson, “Kenneth Patchen: World War II Poet of the Postmodern”

Panel 8C. Theoretic Reflections II

Chair: Pat Burnes

Aaron Kunin, “A Poetics of Color for 1945”

Michael Clune, “What Is It Like?: R. H. Blyth and the Poetics of Consciousness”

J. Andrew Deman, “Production, Patriotism and the Poet’s Dilemma”

Panel 8D. William Carlos Williams IV

Chair: Kenneth Sherwood

Donald Wellman, “Notebooks: Cesaire and Williams”

Okhee Jeong,  “William Carlos Williams’s Confes­sional Poems”

Iris Ralph, “Williams in the 1940s and Examination of his Ecological Sensibility”

Panel 8E. Ezra Pound III

Chair: Ellen Stauder

Tom Martin, “Tergiversation: Ezra Pound’s Use of the Chinese Ren Character in The Unwobbling Pivot and The Pisan Cantos”

Grzegorz Kosvcv, “Robert Lowell’s Support for Ezra Pound in the Bollingen Award Controversy”

Jonathan Skinner, “The Modernist View from Pisa and Macchu Picchu: Ezra Pound’s and Pablo Neruda’s Climactic Pastoral”

Panel 8F. International Perspectives III

Chair: Sarah Ruddy

Nurtin Birlik, “Tanpinar’s Attempts to Go Beyond Temporal Reality in ‘Raks’”

Diane Ward, “Requiem for the 1940s: The Cultural and Poetical Image of Anna Akhmatova in World War II Russia”

Tony Brinkley,  “Proleptic Visions: Mandel­stam’s ’40s”

Poetry reading #7: Theodore Enslin

Chair: Robert Creeley

Poetry reading #8: Maine poets

Jim Bishop, George Bragdon, Tony Brinkley, Robin Brox, Brian Carpenter, Kathleen Ellis, Ben Friedlander, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Burton Hatlen, Bruce Holsapple, Sylvester Pollet, Arlo Quint, and others

Chair: Burton Hatlen

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28

Opening Reception and Outdoor Barbecue

Greetings from President Peter Hoff, Dean Rebecca Eilers, and Vice Provost Douglas Gelinas

Plenary Session #1

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Marjorie Perloff, “Watchman and Spy: O’Hara, Johns, and Cage in the ‘Cool’ Sixties”

Michael Davidson, “Missing Larry”

Poetry Reading #1: Amiri Baraka

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Poets of the 1960s General Reading #1

Chair: Don Wellman

Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas, Gene Frumkin

Open Reading #1

Chair: Mark Rutter

K. Silem Mohammad, Mark McMorris, Jim Dunn, John Landry, and others

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THURSDAY, JUNE 29

Panel Session #1

Panel 1A: Echoes of the 1930s

Chair: Richard Brucher

Thomas Lisk, “Ramon Guthrie as a Modernist Renegade”

Elizabeth Losh, “Epigrams from Another Front: Carl Rakosi’s Americana Poems”

John Lowney, “‘A Metamorphic Palimpsest’: the Underground Memory of Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend”

Panel 1B: In and Around New York

Chair: Steven Evans

Lytle Shaw, “Airing Pound’s Cubicle: Audience from Citizen to Person”

Christopher Volpe, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being Avant Garde: Pop Art, the New York School, and Contemporary ‘Language’ Poetry”

Panel 1C: A Sense of Place

Chair: Laura Cowan

Jonathan Minton, “‘A Living Current’: Charles Tomlin­son and the Embodiment of Place”

George Hart, “Larry Eigner, Landscape, Place, and Space”

Burton Hatlen, “A Poetic Geography, a Geo­graphic Poetics: Theodore Enslin and the Maine Poetry Scene in the 1960s”

Panel 1D. John Ashbery

Chair: Marjorie Perloff

Matthew Richardson, “Ashbery’s Writings of the 60s: Surrealism and Citation”

Jacques Debrot, “Exact Fantasy: John Ashbery’s The Tennis Court Oath”

Mark Silverberg, “Shades of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Camp, Cliché, and John Ashbery’s Good Bad Verse”

Panel 1E. Baraka and Others I

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Richard Quinn, “Pursuing Blackness: Amiri Baraka, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane”

Chris Funkhouser, “LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, The Cricket and JIHAD: Jazz and Poets’ Black Fire”

Aldon Nielsen, “Crow Jane Approxi­mately: Bob Dylan, LeRoi Jones and Big Joe Williams”

Poetry Reading #2: Theodore Enslin

Chair: Mark Nowak

Poetry Reading #3: Nathaniel Tarn and Toby Olson

Chair: Mark Nowak

Panel Session #2

Panel 2A. Louis Zukofsky I

Chair: Kenneth Sherwood

Jonathan Ivry, “Articulating Self-Identity in the Translations of Louis Zukofsky”

Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, “Turning Verses: Zukofsky and Duncan Translating”

Mark McMorris, “Postcolonial ‘A’”

Panel 2B. Dickey, Eckman, Snyder

Chair: Paul Bauschatz

Daniel Turner, “The Savage(d) Ideal: Southern Poetic Primitivism in James Dickey’s ‘May Day Sermon’”

David Adams, “Coming Home: Pivotal Changes in Frederick Eckman’s Poetry”

Luke C. Schlueter, “The Founding of the Domestic in Gary Snyder’s Regarding Wave”

Panel 2C. From Modern to Postmodern: Brooks, Rukeyser, Rexroth

Chair: Shyamal Bagchee

Jenny Goodman, “Gwendolyn Brooks and Muriel Rukeyser in the 1960s: From Modernism to Post­modernism in the Long Poem”

Sophia Tekmitchov, “No More Masks! No More Mythologies!: Muriel Rukeyser as Innovator and Influence”

Samuel Garren, “The Influence of Kenneth Rexroth’s Bird in the Bush and Assays on North American Poetry in the 1960s”

Panel 2D. The Politics of Publication

Chair: Dodie Bellamy

Matthew T. Pifer, “The Underground Press and the Poetry of Resistance in 1960s Detroit”

Nicholas Lawrence, “Mimeo Fever: Sixties Small Press within a Global Context”

Linda Russo, “On Seeing Poetic Production: The Case of Hettie Jones”

Panel 2E. Baraka and Others II

Chair: Aldon Nielsen

Andrew Epstein, “‘Against the Speech of Friends’: Amiri Baraka, Individualism, and the Avant-Garde”

Alicia R. Thompson, “Amiri Baraka’s ‘Am-Tram, Ka ’Ba’”

Jonathan Gill, “History and Habit: Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka in the 1960s”

Panel 2F. The New York School

Chair: Kevin Killian

Marjorie Welish, “The New York School and Metapoetic Lyric”

K. Silem Mohammad, “‘Unrelentingly? Huh’: New York School Poetics and the Romance of the Inarticulate”

Tony Lopez, “‘Powder on a Little Table’: Berrigan’s Sonnets and 60s Poems”

Panel Session #3

Panel 3A. Johnson, Samperi, Bronk

Chair: Peter O’Leary

Patrick Pritchett, “The Prairie Home Companion, or Location Location Locution: Ronald Johnson and the Liturgy of (Queer) Poetics”

Peter O’Leary, “‘The new man is always the spiritual man’: Frank Samperi’s Poetry of Paradise”

Gary Roberts, “Bronk’s Chaste Collectivity”

Panel 3B. Identities

Chair: Shyamal Bagchee

George Hartley, “Yo Soy Joaquin: Chicano Poetry and Retroactive Identity, 1967”

Donna Hollenberg, “‘Black one, incubus’: Sisterhood and Identity Politics in Levertov’s The Sorrow Dance”

Panel 3C. Allen Ginsberg

Chair: John Landry

Sean McDonnell, “‘The Key is in the Sunlight’: Bodily Distortion and Visionary Madness in Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish”

Joshua Clover, “Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan”

Panel 3D. Roethke, Ammons, Jarrell

Chair: Karen Alkalay-Gut

Karen Mills-Courts, “The Gift of Emptiness: Ammons’ Tape for the Turn of the Year and the Diary Genre of the 1960s”

Von Underwood,  “In a Far Field, In a Dark Time: Theodore Roethke’s Uncanny Timeliness in the Mid-1960s”

David Adams, “Lost & Found: Thirty-five Years with Randall Jarrell’s The Lost World”

Panel 3E. Poetry and the Visual Arts

Chair: Kevin Killian

Catherine E. Paul, “Rituals of Citizenship: Poetic Critique of Museums in the 1960s”

L. A. Phillips, “Modern Visual Art and Some Poems by Frank O’Hara”

Alicia Cohen, “Visual Art and the Art of Poetic Vision: The Visible in the Work of Robert Duncan”

Panel 3F. The East Coast Scene

Chair: Laura Cowan

Anthony Libby, “Diane di Prima, ‘Nothing is Lost; It Shines in Our Eyes’”

Peter Puchek, “Desire and Ideology: Anne Waldman’s Early Poetry”

Kevin McGuirk, “Poetry and ‘Stupidity’: Beats to Language”

Poetry Reading #4: Keith Waldrop

Chair: Steve Evans

Plenary Session #2

Chair: Marjorie Perloff

Frank Davey, “Regressive Poetics of the Sixties”

Barrett Watten, “The Turn to Language after the 1960s”

Poets of the 1960s Generation Reading #2: David Bromige and Frank Davey

Chair: George Bowering

Open Reading #2

Chair: Sylvester Pollet

Keith Tuma, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Tony Lopez, Linda Russo, Arielle Greenberg, Tom Lavazzi, Patrick Pritchett, and others

FRIDAY, JUNE 30

Panel Session #4

Panel 4A. b. p. nichol, George Bowering, Fred Wah

Chair: Stephen Cain

Scott Pound, “Sounding Out the Difference: Orality and Textuality in the 60s”

Jason Wiens, “‘I may be trying to tell what I renounce’: George Bowering’s Post-Tish Poetics”

Susan Rudy, “Fred Wah’s Among: Writing ‘Over the view to look for’”

Panel 4B. George Oppen I

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Stephen Cope, “George Oppen in the 60’s”

Gerald Schwartz,  “How George Oppen’s Poem ‘Power, the Enchanted World’ Discovered the Underlying Molecular Structure of the 60s”

Alan Golding, “Place, Space, and Syntax in Seascape: Needle’s Eye”

Panel 4C. Barbara Guest

Chair: Lynn Keller

Arielle Greenberg,  “A Sublime Sort of Exercise: Levity and the Poetry of Barbara Guest”

Kimberly Lamm,  “Hesitant Deviations: Gender in the Work of Barbara Guest and Grace Hartigan in the 1960s”

Sara Lundquist, “‘Well wild wild whatever / in wild more silent blue’: Surfing, the Sixties, and Barbara Guest”

Panel 4D. Black Mountain and St. Mark’s

Chair: Paul Bauschatz

Daniel Kane, “What Price St. Mark’s Poetry Project?”

Burt Kimmelman,  “From Black Mountain College to St. Mark’s Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, Di Prima, and Oppenheimer”

Miriam Nichols,  “Radical Affections: Black Mountain and After”

Panel 4E. Points of Resistance

Chair: Karen Alkalay-Gut

Regina Weinreich,  “Jack Kerouac’s Haikus”

Timothy Gray,  “‘A Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine’: Diane di Prima Heads West”

Ellen M. Smith, “Father, Uncle, Daughter, Bride: The National Family in Diane Wakoski’s The George Wash­ing­ton Poems”

Panel 4F. Robert Lowell

Chair: Troy Thibodeaux

Robin Amelia Morris, “Marking the Land: Robert Lowell’s Boston Landmarks”

William Lavigne, “‘Partly Taboo’: Snodgrass, Lowell & Early Confessional Poetry”

Poetry Reading #5: Fred Wah

Chair: Mark Nowak

Poetry Reading #6: George Bowering

Chair: David Bromige

Panel Session #5

Panel 5A. Louis Zukofsky II

Chair: Tom Orange

Joseph Conte, “Zukofsky’s ‘A’-21 Rudens: An Audio-Palimptext”

Kenneth Sherwood, “Zukof­sky’s Indeterminate Recurrence: The Ear and the Work Never Ceasing”

Matthew Cooperman, “Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers and the Garden of Sound”

Panel 5B. Denise Levertov

Chair: Donna Hollenberg

Jose Rodriguez, “Denise Levertov: The A/E(s)th(et)ic Poetics of Relearning the Alphabet in Times of Crisis”

Paul Lacey, “Denise Levertov as Teacher”

Joan A. Burke, “‘A Reve­lation of Correspondences’: Denise Levertov and Robert Creeley”

Panel 5C. Politics and Poetry I

Chair: K. Silem Mohammad

Ralph Savarese, “‘The Tired Bemoaning Look of Saviors’: Daniel Berrigan and the Poetry of Social Activism”

David Bromige, “Beneath the Underground: Charles Potts’ Valga Krusa: A Novel of the Bay Area 60s, and the Poetic Ferment in the Wake of ‘The New American Poetry’”

Tom Lavazzi and Zoe Randall, “From the Floor: Political Performance and the American Poetry of the 1960s”

Panel 5D. Beats

Chair: Maria Damon

Ronna C. Johnson, “Lenore Kandel’s The Love Book”

Nancy Grace, “The Spontaneous Poetics of ruth weiss”

Kristin Prevallet, “The Friends of Hag: Resisting Literary Movements”

Panel 5E. Publishing in Canada

Chair: Ken Norris

Pauline Butling, “Redefining the Radical: TISH and ‘The Problem of Margins’”

Stephen Cain, “Two in T.O.: The Canadian Publi­ca­tions of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Wright”

Panel 5F. The New American Poetry and/on Film

Films by Marie Menken, Stan Brakhage, and Harry Smith

Rare showing of a film by Helen Adam

Commentary by Lee Ann Brown

Panel session #6

Panel 6A. John Wieners

Chair: Fred Wah

Jim Dunn,  “‘Now The Season of the Furn­ished Room’: An Analysis of ‘A Poem for Painters’ in The Hotel Wentley Poems”

Stephen Ellis, “Singular Conviction Parallel Sunset Boulevard Upon Limbic Rise, Clairvoyant or Crestfallen, Ani­mates Boston, Bavaria and Babylon in terms of 4000 Ladies-In-Waiting, or, The Integral Life: notes pertaining to Wieners’ magna carta Behind the State Capitol, and related works”

“John Wieners and Robert Duncan in San Francisco” (Video)

Panel 6B. George Oppen and William Bronk

Chair: Burt Kimmelman

Thomas Fisher, “Notes on George Oppen: The Daybooks and the Return to Poetry”

Demetres Tryphonopoulos, “The Pro­sody of George Oppen in the 1960s—‘Tho it is impenetrable’”

David Clippinger, “Outside of the Anthologies but at the Heart of Origin: William Bronk in the 1960s”

Panel 6C. From Langston Hughes to the Black Arts Movement

Chair: Maria Damon

Scarlett Brehm Higgins, “The Late Poetry of Langston Hughes and the Politics of Jazz: Documentary Collage and the Civil Rights Movement”

Mark Melnicove, “Langston Hughes and the Poli­tics of the Cold War in Africa in the 1960s”

James Smethurst,  “Can’t Forget the Motor City: Detroit and the Rise of the Black Arts Movement”

Panel 6D. Berryman and Others

Chair: Ellen M. Smith

Kathe Davis,  “John Berryman’s Dream of the ’60s”

Troy Thibodeaux,  “Conversions, Reversions, and Inversions: Reading Lowell Reading Berryman”

Andrew Osborn, “Admit Impediment: Berry­man’s and Ashbery’s Hedges of Understanding in the 60s”

Panel 6E. Edward Dorn and Jack Spicer

Chair: Alan Golding

Keith Tuma, “Ed Dorn and England”

Charles Blanton,  “‘areal is hopefully Ariel’: Edward Dorn and the Map of Locations”

Kevin Killian, “Jack Spicer’s Secret”

Panel 6F. Experimental Women Poets

Chair: Lynn Keller

Linda Kinnahan,  “‘In Defiance’ of the Field: Kathleen Fraser’s Early Work”

Jeanne Heuving,  “For Love: Tracking Leslie Scalapino Tracking Robert Creeley”

Poetry Reading #7: John Wieners

Chair: Steve Evans

Plenary Session #3

Chair: Alan Golding

Bob Perelman,  “Dusk of Dawn of Dusk: Melvin Tolson and Modernism in the 60s”

Lorenzo Thomas,  “Unfinished Business: The Black Arts Movement—from Wright to Left”

Staged Reading of Dutchman

by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

With Lee Ann Brown and Lorenzo Thomas

Directed by Carla Harryman

Poetry Reading #8: Askia Touré

Chair: Lorenzo Thomas

Open Reading #3

Chair: Sylvester Pollet

Aldon Nielsen, Marjorie Welish, Geoffrey O’Brien, Tom Orange, Mark Silverberg, Sophia Tekmitchov, and others

SATURDAY, JULY 1

Panel Session #7

Panel 7A. Poetry and Performance

Chair: Mark Scroggins

Lorrie Smith, “Black Arts Poetics and the Spoken Word Renaissance”

Hélène Aji,  “David Antin in the 1960s: Prolegomena to a Poetics of Discourse”

William Sylvester, “Creeley Zukofsky Olson”

Panel 7B. Special Presentation

Geoffrey O’Brien,  “Top 40: Early 60s Radio as Sonic Landscape”

Panel 7C. Robert Duncan I

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Paula Marie Orlando, “The Trouble of a Poetry: Mindfulness and Robert Duncan’s Poetry”

Anne Dewey, “Robert Duncan’s War Poetry and the End of a Black Mountain Poetics”

Robert J. Bertholf, “The Robert Duncan/Denise Levertov Correspondence”

Panel 7D. Frank O’Hara

Chair: K. Silem Mohammad

Sandra Lim, “The Body Articulate: Frank O’Hara’s Poetics of Movement”

John Murchek,  “Writing in the City Ad Libitum: O’Hara’s Urbanity”

Michael Magee,  “Tribes of New York: Frank O’Hara and Amiri Baraka at the Five Spot”

Panel 7E. Politics and Poetry II

Chair: Albert Gelpi

Matthew Hofer, “Structures of Complicity and Resistance: American Poets Address Vietnam”

James McCorkle,  “Poetry, Prison and Pedagogy in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry of the 1960s”

Panel 7F. Lorine Niedecker

Chair: Kevin Killian

Elizabeth Willis, “Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Possession”

Tiffiny Shockley,  “The Prosody of Lorine Niedecker: Poet of Water, Earth, and Sound”

Susan E. Dunn,  “North Central: Lorine Niedecker’s Place in Environmental Writing”

Plenary Session #4

Chair: Tony Brinkley

Albert Gelpi, “Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan: The ‘Aesthetic Ethics’ of the Visionary Imagination”

Lynn Keller, “‘just one of / the girls: – - / normal in the extreme’: Kathleen Fraser, Fanny Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop Writing in the ‘60s”

Poetry Reading #9: Rosmarie Waldrop

Chair: Steven Evans

Poetry Reading #10: Kathleen Fraser

Chair: Jeanne Heuving

Panel Session #8

Panel 8A. Towards Language Poetry

Chair: Steven Evans

Adalaide Morris,  “Serial Thinking: Linking Spicer, Creeley, and Scalapino”

David Kellogg, “‘Where Presently I Write’: Speech, Syntax and Sentence in the Early Poetry of David Bromige”

Tom Orange, “Clark Coolidge’s Poetics of Space, 1965-1971”

Panel 8B. Jay Wright

Chair: Alec Marsh

Alec Marsh, “Jay Wright’s ‘Inscrutability’”

Lorenzo Thomas, “‘I Call This Home’: Afri­can Redemption and Jay Wright’s American Dream”

Aldon Nielsen,  “‘Variations on a Theme by LeRoi Jones’”

Panel 8C. Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery

Chair: Ellen M. Smith

Barbara Fischer,  “‘Commerce or Contem­plation’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil and the Work of Travel Poetry in the 1960s”

Minda Rae Amiran,  “The Moose’s Way: Elizabeth Bishop’s Struggle With Power”

Dean Taciuch,  “Ashbery and Entropy: Signal and Noise”

Panel 8D. Marginalities

Chair: Paula Marie Orlando

Michael Basinski,  “The Dan­ger­ous Poetry of the 1960s: Doug Blazek’s Ole, Charles Bukowski and d. a. levy”

John Landry, “The Long and the Short of Bob Lax”

Christopher W. Alexander, “American Gay Macho: Jack Spicer’s Billy the Kid Reconsidered”

Panel 8E. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton I

Chair: Dodie Bellamy

Stephanie A. Smith,  “‘Nets of the Infinite’: Fear, Femininity and ‘the future of man’ in Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems”

Ann Keniston, “Plath’s Apostrophe”

Susan Gilmore,  “Performing ‘Her Kind’: Anne Sexton’s ‘Strange Theater’”

Panel 8F. The Transatlantic Ron Johnson

Chair: Mark Scroggins

Mark Scroggins,  “An Innocent Abroad: Johnson’s American England”

Eric Selinger,  “A Handshake Under the Mallorn Trees: Johnson, Tolkein, and The Book of the Green Man”

Joel Bettridge,  “Ark and America”

Poetry reading #11: Jay Wright

Chair: Alec Marsh

Plenary Session #5

Chair: Steve Evans

Charles Altieri,  “Affect and Experiment in Robert Creeley”

Peter Middleton, “‘Particulars of time and space of which one is a given instance’ (Robert Creeley): Poetry, Science and Politics in the Sixties”

Poets of the 1960s Generation Reading #3

Chair: Alan Golding, Chair

Barrett Watten, Michael Davidson, Bob Perelman

Open Reading #4

Chair: Mark Rutter

Jeanne Heuving, Anthony Libby, Jacques Debrot, Matthew Cooperman, Lee Ann Brown, Kristin Prevallet, Elizabeth Willis, and others

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SUNDAY, JULY 2

Panel session #9

Panel 9A. Robert Duncan II

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Grant Jenkins, “The Body Ethical: Love in Robert Duncan’s Poetry”

Edward Lintz,  “Repetition and Insistence in Robert Duncan’s Poetry of the 1960s”

Alex Cadogan, “Peter Russell and Robert Duncan: A Post-War Classicism”

Panel 9B. Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter

Chair: Bill Howe

Terrell Crouch, “Bob Dylan”

Jim Mello,  “Fighting in the Captain’s Tower: An Investigation into the Relationship of Poetry and Rock Song Lyrics in the 1960s”

Brent Wood, “Robert Hunter’s Oral Poetry”

Panel 9C. Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath II

Chair: Paul Bauschatz

Lisa Narbeshuber, “‘extravagant, like torture’: Plath’s Poetry as Ceremony and Spectacle”

Karen Alkalay-Gut,  “The Dream Life of Ms. Dog: Anne Sexton, Walter Mitty, Gasoline Alley, and R. D. Laing”

Panel 9D. Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder

Chair: Sylvester Pollet

Bruce Holsapple,  “(On Philip Whalen) On Philip Whalen”

Gary Lawless,  “Nanao Sakaki”

Panel session #10

Panel 10A. Open Form Poetries

Chair: Laura Cowan

Don Wellman,  “Open Poetics and Subjectivity”

Roger Gilbert, “Open Form and Closure in the 60s Lyric”

Grant Jenkins,  “Voice/Image: Reading Sonia Sanchez’s Experiments”

Panel 10B. Fluxus

Chair: Tom Lavazzi

Bill Howe,  “Fluxus and Possibilities”

Owen F. Smith,  “Fluxus, Intermedia, and Poetry in the 1960s: Reconstruction of Meaning at the End of Language”

Michael and Natalie Basinski,  “Fluxus Presentation”

Panel 10C. Erasures and Transformations

Chair: Burt Kimmelman

Jonathan Gill,  “Silence and Violence in Ezra Pound’s Drafts and Fragments”

André Furlani, “Ronald Johnson sous Rature”

Panel 10D. Canadian Perspectives

Chair: Ken Norris

Shyamal Bagchee, “Beyond ‘Pragmatism’: Cultural Nationalism and Subversion of Reason in the 1960s Poetry of Livesay and Purdy”

Tony Tremblay, “From Inspiration to Swerve: Exploring the Influence of Ezra Pound on the Cultural Production of Louis Dudek”

Andrew Rosen, “‘Worthy and lyric and pure’: Cohen and the Poetics of Decision”

Panel 10E. The New American Poetry and/on Film

Films by Marie Menken, Stan Brakhage, and Harry Smith

Rare showing of a film by Helen Adam

Commentary by Lee Ann Brown

Plenary Session #6

Chair: Ben Friedlander

Everett Hoagland, reading poems about Bob Kaufman

Maria Damon, “Bob Kaufman and the Poet’s Labor Revisited”

Celebratory Reading by Maine Poets of the 1960s and After

Constance Hunting, Sylvester Pollet, Bruce Holsapple, Henry Braun, Michael Alpert, Jim Bishop, Mark Melnicove, Burton Hatlen, Jim Koller, Gary Lawless, Steve Luttrell, Pat Ranzoni, and others

This conference was made possible in part by a grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation.

Cover photograph by Marie Helena McCosh

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

Session #1, Plenary

Chair: Burton Hatlen

M.L. Rosenthal, “Karl Shapiro and the Rich Continuities of the Fifties”

Session #2, Panels

Panel 2A: H.D.

Chair: Cassandra Laity

Crystal Anderson, “Lifting the Veil of Cytheraea: H.D.’s Revisionist Modernism in Helen in Egypt”

Anita George, “Re-Visions of Helen: Sappho Fr. 16 and H.D.’s Helen in Egypt”

Charlotte Hussey, “‘A rhythm as yet unheard to challenge the trumpet note’: Analyzing the Poetic Line Used in H.D.’s Helen in Egypt”

Panel 2B: John Berryman

Chair: Constance Hunting

Jori Finkel, “The Sloppy Modernism of St. Pancras Blaser: Berryman’s Unpublished Dream Songs”

Tony Moore, “Dying to Write: Death and the Repetition Compulsion in John Berryman’s The Dream Songs”

Ernest Smith, “John Berryman’s ‘Programmatic’ for The Dream Songs, and an Instance of Revision”

Panel 2C: Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac

Chair: Batya Weinbaum

Jonathan Ivry, “The Poetics of Obscenity: Ginsberg and Mapplethorpe on Trial”

Batya Weinbaum, “Women as Bitch, Dead or Mad in the 1950s Poetry of Allen Ginsberg: Groundwork for Revolutionary Change?”

Kurt Hemmer, “The Western Haiku: Kerouac as Imagist”

Panel 2D: The Poem in the Ear and on the Page

Chair: Dean Taciuch

Jill K. Randall, “Just Space: Joanne Kyger’s Poetic Line”

Michael Alpert, “City Lights Books from a Printer’s Point of View”

Hank Lazer, “Toward the Lyric Valuables: The Short Line in the Early 1950s”

Panel 2E: Elizabeth Bishop I

Chair: Jennifer Craig Pixley

Wendy VerHage Falb, “‘Resolution and Independence’ in the 1950s?: Elizabeth Bishop and the Crisis of Lyric Poetry”

Renee R. Curry, “‘A Sort of Inheritance; White’: Elizabeth Bishop, Poetry, and Selective Self-Reflection on Whiteness”

Leslie Hatcher, “Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Visits to St. Elizabeths’”

Panel 2F: Frank O’Hara I

Chair: Rosanne Wasserman

Peter R. McGahey, “Frank O’Hara’s Visual Poetry: Abstract Expressionism in Verse”

Chris Stroffolino, “Design and the Figure in Selected Frank O’Hara Poems from 1952”

Session #3, Panels

Panel 3A: Stephen Jonas and Melvin Tolson

Chair: Aldon L. Nielsen

Mark Scroggins, “Stephen Jonas and the Exercise of the Ear”

Keith Leonard, “Melvin Tolson’s Rattling of Eliotic Bones: Black Culture, New Art, and the Transformation of the Word”

Aldon L. Nielsen, “Carrying Deconstruction to Cleveland in the 1950s”

Panel 3B: Denise Levertov

Chair: Albert Gelpi

Paul A. Lacey, “‘To Meditate a Saving Strategy’: Denise Levertov’s Religious Poetry”

Nancy K. Gish, “‘Imaginations of Velvet’: Levertov in the Fifties”

Jose Rodriguez Herrera, “The Myth of Eros in the Poetry of Denise Levertov”

Panel 3C: Robert Duncan

Chair: Maria Damon

David Cuthbert, “Robert Duncan and the State of Emergency”

David Peterson, “The Queer Who Came in from the Cold: Robert Duncan’s Mid-Century Construction of Homosexual Identity”

Joseph Conte, “Robert Duncan’s Polymathic Postmodernism”

Panel 3D: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, and Paul Blackburn

Chair: Harvey Kail

Tyler B. Hoffman, “‘Clear Your Throat and Speak Up’: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Beat Poetics and a Hermeneutics of Performance”

Bruce Holsapple, “Whalen’s Work: Break Through and Stay Out”

Brian Spector, “East Tenth Street and Other Foreign Places: Landscape in the Poetry of Paul Blackburn”

Panel 3E: Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and Muriel Rukeyser

Chair: Susan E. Dunn

Joshua Weiner, “An Otherwise Beat: Mina Loy’s ‘Hot Cross Bum’”

Meg Schoerke, “Efforts of Affection: Marianne Moore’s Elegies for Her Mother from Collected Poems (1951)”

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, “Muriel Rukeyser’s One Life: The Law vs. the Law of Process”

Panel 3F: John Ashbery, A.R. Ammons, and Kenneth Koch

Chair: Steven Schneider

Rosanne Wasserman, “A House Tour: John Ashbery’s Paintings at Home”

Kevin McGuirk, “Ammons and the Nuclear Gaze”

David Chinitz, “Kenneth Koch and the Invention of Postmodern Poetry”

Session #4, Reading: Ruth Stone

Chair: Rosanne Wasserman

Session #5, Plenary

Chair: Alan Golding

Robert von Hallberg, “Robert Hayden: Aspiration to Universality”

Session #6, Reading: Armand Schwerner

Chair: Norman Finkelstein

Session #7, Reading: Maine Poets

Chair: Constance Hunting

David J. Adams, Bruce Holsapple, Terrell Hunter, Constance Hunting, Kathleen Lignell, Ken Norris, Jennifer Craig Pixley, Sylvester Pollet, Don Wellman

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THURSDAY, JUNE 20

Session #8, Panels

Panel 8A: Audre Lorde and Ruth Stone

Chair: Rosanne Wasserman

Shirley Zenthoefer Campbell, “From Mexico to Mississippi: Poetry from the Early Years in the Life of Audre Lorde”

Jennifer Craig Pixley, “A Particular Woman: Scientific Language in the Poetry of Ruth Stone”

Rosanne Wasserman, “Ruth Stone: Shaming the Ghost”

Panel 8B: James Schuyler, Jonathan Williams, and Ronald Johnson

Chair: Sylvester Pollet

Paul Bauschatz, “James Schuyler’s Picnic Cantata: The Art of the Ordinary”

Wendy Kramer, “‘A Curious Occasion’ or ‘Why Jonathan Williams is My Gertrude Stein of Content”

Peter O’Leary, “ARK as a Spiritual Phenomenon: An Approach to Reading Ronald Johnson’s Poem”

Panel 8C: H.D. and Others

Chair: Cassandra Laity

Joan A. Burke, “‘Into Deep Woods’: H.D. and Denise Levertov”

Susan Kayorie, “The Worm and the Rat: Transformations in the Poetry of H.D. and Anne Sexton”

Margaret Anne Smith, “The Transformative Powers of the Sea in H.D.’s Helen in Egypt and Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck”

Panel 8D: Theodore Enslin and Edward Dorn

Chair: Craig Watson

Mark Nowak, “Ethnographic Method and Theodore Enslin’s ‘New Sharon’s Prospect”

Mark Hammer, “Theodore Enslin in the 1950s”

Burton Hatlen, “After Olson: Place, Space, and Language in the Poetry of Edward Dorn and Theodore Enslin”

Panel 8E: Figuring Jewish-American Poetics in the 50s

Chair and Respondent: Norman Finkelstein

Maeera Shreiber, “The Unkindest Cut: Karl Shapiro and the Anxieties of Jewish/American Poetry”

Stephen A. Fredman, “Allen Ginsberg: ‘Eastern Jew’”

Eric Murphy Selinger, “From Bop Kabbalah to Jews with Horns: The Fifties Roots of ‘Radical Jewish Culture’”

Panel 8F: Ezra Pound I

Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopolous

Stephen Sicari, “Pound as Archaeologist: Reconstructing Nature”

Brian M. Reed, “Ezra Pound’s Utopia of the Eye: The Chinese Characters in Rock-Drill”

Robert Kibler, “A Taoist Understanding of the Word and Pound’s Magic Characters”

Panel 8G: Frank O’Hara II

Chair: Joseph Conte

Andrew Epstein,  “‘The Inexorable Product of My Own Time’: Frank O’Hara’s Poetry and the Cinema”

Nick Lawrence, “Frank O’Hara, Situtionniste”

George Guida, “Moment and Truth in the Poems of Frank O’Hara”

Session #9, Plenary

Chair: Barrett Watten

Michael Davidson, “Managing the Margins: Poetry and the Politics of Containment”

Session #10, Plenary

Chair: Alan Golding

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, “Manhood and its Poetic Practices: Some Examples from the Fifties”

Session #11, Plenary

Chair: Ann Charters

Albert Gelpi, “Denise Levertov and Robert Creeley: The Dialectic within Black Mountain Poetics”

Session #12, Panels

Panel 12A: John Berryman and James Wright

Chair: Constance Hunting

Kathie Davis, “Berryman as Mother: American Manhood in the Fifties”

David A. Rice, “The Cell, the Containment”

William Thompson, “James Wright’s The Green Wall: Poetry and Technique”

Panel 12B: Jack Spicer

Chair: Michael Davidson

Peter Gizzi, “Jack Spicer and the Practice of Reading”

Paul Naylor, “The Politics of Not Being Political: Pure Poetry and Jack Spicer’s A Book of Music”

Don Wellman, “Spicer’s Conceptualization of the Book”

Panel 12C: The New American Poetry Revisited

Chair: Henry Weinfield

Henry Weinfield, “Projective Verse Revisited”

Alan Golding, “The New American Poetry: A Trip through the Archives”

Norman Finkelstein, “‘Lyrical Interference’ in The New American Poetry”

Panel 12D: Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath

Chair: Priscilla Paton

Elise Aasgaard, “‘We are magic talking to itself’: Rhyme and Ritual in the Early Poetry of Anne Sexton”

Ethan Lewis, “Sylvia Plath – An Appreciation”

H.C. Phelps, “New England Elegies: Sylvia Plath and the Regional Tradition in Poetry”

Panel 12E: Frank O’Hara III

Chair: Charles Altieri

Terence Diggory, “Frank O’Hara’s Urban Pastoral”
Katherine M. Davis, “Melodramas of Object-Choice in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara”

Vainis Aleksa, “Versions of Frank O’Hara in the Literary Magazines”

Panel 12F: Ezra Pound II

Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Michael Golston, “Inaudible Rhythms: Form in Pound’s Cantos of the Fifties”

William Cole, “Pound’s Web: Hypertext in the Rock-Drill Cantos”

Jonathan Ausubel, “Seeing Postwar Poetry: What Pound Studies and Concrete Can Show About How We Read”

Panel 12G: Historical Contexts

Chair: Jenny Goodman

Elizabeth Losh, “After Auschwitz: American Poetries of the Holocaust”

Jeffrey Peterson, “The ‘Two Cultures’ of Postwar Anglo-American Poetry”

James Smethurst, “America I Used to Be a Communist When I was a Kid I’m Not Sorry: The Popular Front and the Rise of the New American Poetry”

Session #13, Panels

Panel 13A: Randall Jerrell

Chair: M.L. Rosenthal

Ralph Savarese, “Randall Jarrell: The Poet as Dromomaniac”

Jennifer L. Holden, “An Indistinguishable Heart at the Supermarket: Examining the Discourse of Erased Identity in Randall Jarrell”

David J. Adams, “Inside and Outside: Randall Jerrell’s Path Through 1950s American Poetry”

Panel 13B: The School of Boston I

Chair: Joseph Donahue

Albert Gelpi, “Kerouac and Lowell: The Catholic Connection”

Marisa Januzzi, “Kerouac, Berrigan, and the Poetics of Providence”

Joseph Donahue, “Nothing Deserves to Live: Abjection and the Occult in John Wieners”

Panel 13C: Elizabeth Bishop II

Chair: Leslie Hatcher

Mary M. Lacey, “The Violet was Flawed on the Lawn: Problems of Religious Belief in Elizabeth Bishop’s A Cold Spring”

Elizabeth Nettrour, “Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Geography III’: ‘The Art of Losing’ Referential Meaning”

Priscilla Paton, “Lost Prospects: Elizabeth Bishop and Poetic Landscape”

Panel 13D: George Oppen

Chair: Theodore Enslin

John Lowney, “Remapping Oppen’s ‘Return’”

Josh Charlson, “‘The Air Perhaps of Love and of Conviction’: Envisioning Love in George Oppen’s Later Poetry”

Grant Jenkins, “‘A Poetics of Obligation’: The Trace of Ethics in George Oppen’s Poetry”

Panel 13E: Robert Creeley

Chair: Alan Golding

James J. Zeigler, “Robert Creeley’s Language Games”

Willard (Skip) Fox, “Discordia Discors: Ironic Subversion of the Self and Other in Creeley, O’Hara, and Spicer”

Peter Baker, “Creeley’s Gift”

Panel 13F: Robert Lowell I

Chair: Tony Moore

Sean P. Connelly, “Father, Son, and Genteel Objects: The Mourning of an Imaginary Genealogy in Robert Lowell’s Poetry”

Steven Gould Axelrod, “Robert Lowell and the Shattered Image of Home”

Panel 13G: Other Voices I

Chair: Kathleen Lignell

Kathleen Crown, “H.D. in the 1950s: The Apparitional Figures in Sagesse”

Barrett Watten, “Being Hailed In and By the 1950s: Cultural Poetics and Social Negativity”

Panel 13H: In and About San Francisco

Chair: William Thompson

Laban Carrick Hill, “Weldon Kees in San Francisco: The Poetics of Dis-Solution/Illusion”

Vic Tulli, “Posing, Passing, Crossing, Clashing: Thom Gunn and the Naturalization of a U.S. Poet”

Robert Pickford, “Words, Music, and Beat: Developing a Listening Methodology for the Beat/San Francisco Poetry and Jazz Recordings”

Session #14, Song Recital

Nancy Ogle, Soprano

A program of songs based on poems by poets of the 1950s

Session #15, Plenary

Chair: Marjorie Perloff

Charles Altieri, “The Poetics of Personal Contingency in Plath, Creeley, and O’Hara”

Session #16, Reading: Jerome Rothenberg

Chair: Michael Davidson

Session #17, Group Reading

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Alicia Ostriker

M.L. Rosenthal

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21

Session #18, Panels

Panel 18A: Frank O’Hara IV

Chair: Geoffrey O’Brien

Timothy F. Waples, “Frank O’Hara’s Nerve: The Individual Artist’s Stake in Cold War Cultural Politics”

Benjamin Friedlander, “‘The Most Difficult Relationship’: Frank O’Hara on Race in the 1950s”

Steve Evans, “Frank O’Hara and the Politics of Emergence”

Panel 18B: Other Voices II

Chair: Michael Davidson

Fred Wright:  “‘My Life by Water’: The Connection Between Consciousness and Water in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry”

Anita Plath Helle, “American Cold War Elegy: ‘Lost to Lust and Prosecution’”

Sarah E. MacDonald, “Writing Out of War”

Panel 18C: Charles Olson

Chair: Jonathan Ausubel

Carla Billitteri, “Olson and the Symbiotic Economy of Speech and Writing”

Loss Pequeño Glazier, “‘AD VALOREM CAGLI’: Olson’s Projective Moebius”

Dean Taciuch, “Olson’s ‘Projective Verse’ and Anti-Intellectualism”

Panel 18D: Robert Lowell II

Chair: Tony Moore

Von Underwood, “Clean Laundry, Caste, and Pop-Culture in Robert Lowell’s ‘Memories of West Street and Lepke’”

Michael Thurston, “Robert Lowell’s Monumental Vision”

Nick Halpern, “Robert Lowell: Prophecy and Domesticity”

Panel 18E: Ezra Pound III

Chair: Ellen Keck Stauder

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, “‘The Enormous Tragedy of the Dream’: The Later Cantos in Light of Pound’s Correspondence with Olivia Rossetti Agresti”

Tony Tremblay, “Ezra Pound and Prince Boris de Rachewiltz: Their Correspondence, 1953-58”

Miranda B. Hickman, “‘To Facilitate the Traffic’ (or, ‘DAMN Deluxe Editions’): Ezra Pound’s ‘Descent’ into Trade Editions”

Panel 18F: Gwendolyn Brooks

Chair: Robin A. Morris

Jenny Goodman, “Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen and Postwar Constructions of the American Epic Tradition”

Susan Gilmore, “‘We cut our poems out of air’: Gwendolyn Brooks in the Fifties”

William T. Lawlor, “Gwendolyn Brooks as a Poet of the Fifties”

Panel 18G: Elizabeth Bishop and Others

Chair: Meg Schoerke

Camille Roman, “Writing Against the Cold War: Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath”

James McCorkle, “John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop and the Lyric Temperament”

Kim Vaeth, “Revealing and Concealing: Elizabeth Bishop’s Use of Form”

Panel 18H: Influences

Chair: Virginia Nees-Hatlen

Mary Adams, “Monstrous Seers: Poetic Progeny of Frankenstein in the 1950s”

Rebecca Hurst, “Theodore Roethke’s Oedipal Rivalry with T.S. Eliot”

April D. Fallon, “‘A Chaos of Sensations’: The Nietzschean Influence from High Modernsim to Ginsberg and Plath”

Session #19, Plenary

Chair: Armand Schwerner

Jerome Rothenberg, “Poetry in the 1950s: A Global Awakening”

Session #20, Plenary

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Louis Martz, “Watching the Fifties: A Reviewer’s Retrospect”

Session #21, Group Reading

Chair: Kathleen Lignell

Norman Finkelstein, Benjamin Friedlander, Hank Lazar, Aldon L. Nielsen, Geoffrey O’Brien, Bob Perelman, Joan Retallack, Mark Scroggins, Craig Watson, Barrett Watten, Henry Weinfield

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SATURDAY, JUNE 22

Session #22, Panels

Panel 22A: William Carlos Williams and Others

Chair: Dean Taciuch

Sergio Rizzo, “Allen Ginsberg in Paterson: A Study of Poetic Paternity and Social Displacement”

Steve Miles, “The Thing In Itself: Approaches of William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein”

Christopher MacGowan, “Williams and Auden in the 1950s”

Panel 22B: Adrienne Rich

Chair: Albert Gelpi

Jonathan Gill, “Rooted at the Split: Adrienne Rich and Judaism”

Sylvia Henneberg, “Writing Like a Radical: Political Awareness in Adrienne Rich’s Early Poetry”

Jeannine Johnson, “Adrienne Rich’s Autocritography of the 1950s”

Panel 22C: John Ashbery

Chair: Virginia Nees-Hatlen

Jeffrey Gray, “Maps without Territories: John Ashbery’s Travel Agency”

Thomas Lisk, “Toward a John Ashbery Grammar”

Bruce Campbell, “‘A Torn Page with a Passionate Oasis’: John Ashbery’s The Tennis Court Oath”

Panel 22D: Lorine Niedecker

Chair: Jeffrey Peterson

Jenny Penberthy, “Beyond the Pale: Lorine Niedecker’s FOUR PAUL Poems”

Glenna Breslin, “Lorine Niedecker and Æneas McAllister”

Susan E. Dunn, “‘In the great snowfall…’” Lorine Niedecker’s Cold War”

Panel 22E: Words and Things

Chair: Sylvester Pollet

Andrew Klobucar, “The Kinetics of the Thing: From Ideology to Ecology in Projective Verse”

Kenneth Sherwood, “For the Common: A Poetics of Locating ‘Particulars’ in a Generalizing Time”

Bob Perelman, “Teaching Transcendence: The Poetry and Politics of Charles Olson and Adrienne Rich”

Panel 22F: Bob Kaufman and Langston Hughes

Chair: Aldon L. Nielsen

Maria Damon, “Other Beats: Bob Kaufman’s Bagel Shop Jazz”

John Millett, “Towards a ‘Projective’ Community: Musical Conventions and Langston Hughes’s Blues and Jazz Poems”

Joe Lockard, “Langston Hughes and the Modernism Color Line”

Panel 22G: Edwin Rolfe and Thomas McGrath

Chair: Joshua Weiner

Walter Kalaidjian, “‘Deeds Were Their Last Words’: Edwin Rolfe’s Poetry in the 1950s”

Bill Stobb, “Keeping ‘The Winter Count’: Responsible Memory in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath”

David Blake, “Exiled from the Republic: Thomas McGrath in Joseph McCarthy’s America”

Panel 22H: Soundings

Chair: Colleen J. Hamilton

Paris De Soto, “Self-Affirmation or Aggrandizement? ‘Loudness’ in Postmodern American Poetry”

Chris Funkhouser, “Multimedia Effects: American Poetry Layered Since Black Mountain”

Joseph Duemer, “The Search for an Absolute Rhythm”

Session #23, Plenary

Chair: Ann Charters

Alicia Ostriker, “Howl Revisited: Allen Ginsberg and Prophetic Lamentation”

Session #24, Plenary

Chair: Harvey Kail

Ann Charters, “Encounters Across a Continuum: Charles Olson/Ann Charters/Herman Melville”

Session #25, Reading: Louis Simpson

Chair: Steven Schneider

Session #26, Panels

Panel 26A: A Sense of Place

Chair: Elisabeth Joyce

Timothy Gray, “Two Versions of the Pastoral in Cold War America: The Construction of the New York and San Francisco Poetry Communities as Cultural Havens”

Abie Hajitarkhani, “Beats on the Pro”

Bernard Quetchenbach, “The Search for Community in the Work of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry”

Panel 26B: Louis Zukofsky

Chair: Mark Scroggins

Colleen J. Hamilton, “‘The sound is a mollycoddle’s’: Sound and the Body of the Text in the Zukofskys’s Catullus (Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber)”

William E. Grim, “Zukofsky’s ‘A-12’: The Faust of the Fifties”

Luke Carson, “‘Sir, I am a tourist!’: Zukofsky and Adams in Rome”

Panel 26C: Ezra Pound IV

Chair: Charles Altieri

Alec Marsh, “The Sign of the Four in Pound’s Rock-Drill”

Diane A. Reid, “‘Honey, Barley, and Blood’: Re-Examining the Role of Archaic Ritual in The Cantos of Ezra Pound”

Ellen Keck Stauder, “‘Crystal waves weaving together’: Visual Notation and the Phrasal Music of the Rock-Drill Cantos”

Panel 26D: Marginalities

Chair: Libbie Rifkin

Virginia M. Koudis, “Anthology Omissions: Rukeyser, Brooks, Bishop”

Gary Roberts, “Disingenuous, Intrigued, Inviting More: The Limits of Precedent Anthologies”

Piotr Parlej, “The Naked Speech: Burroughs and the Others”

Panel 26E: Allen Ginsberg

Chair: Alicia Ostriker

John H. Lardas, “America When Will Your Cowboys Read Spengler? Allen Ginsberg’s Response to Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West”

James Kelley, “Contradictions of Desire: Ginsberg, the Critics, and the Whitman ‘Problem’ of the 1950s”

Panel 26F: The Charles Olson Connection

Chair: Joseph Conte

Sharon Thesen, “Drafts and Responses: Some Poems and Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff”

Trent Keough, “Charles Olson and Canadian Literature: The French Connection”

Trevor Code, “The Theater of Poetry: The Analogue of Theatricality in the Theory and Poetry of Williams and Olson”

Panel 26G: “The Beat Games”: A Multimedia Presentation

Presenter: Tom Lavazzi

Panel 26H: William Bronk

Chair: Burt Kimmelman

David Clippinger, “The Mind’s Landscape: Accumulating Position in the Poetry of William Bronk and Charles Olson”

Don Prues, “We Always Miss It: Bronk, Frost, and the Reality of the Undefined”

Ed Foster, “Moonscapes in Spicer and Bronk: Poetry Doesn’t Reflect”

Respondent: Henry Weinfield

Session #27, Panels

Panel 27A: William Bronk Reading

Videotape prepared for this conference

Chair: Henry Weinfield and Stephen A. Fredman

Panel 27B: John Cage and Jackson Mac Low I

Chair: Armand Schwerner

Joan Retallack, “____________:____________”

Charles A. Baldwin, “‘letting in’: Jackson Mac Low’s Systemic Chance”

Joel Kuszai, “Jackson Mac Low in the 1950s”

Panel 27C: Barbara Guest

Chair: Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Linda A. Kinnahan, “Women and Experimental Poetics: Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser”

Lynn Keller, “Barbara Guest’s Feminine Mystique”

Sara Lundquist, “‘The Imagination at its Turning’: Barbara Guest’s Ekphrastic Poems from the 1950s”

Panel 27D: Kenneth Rexroth

Chair: George Hart

Richard Blevins, “Rexroth’s Signature, or the Romantic, versus Creeley’s Epistemology, or the Postmodern”

George Hart, “In Defense of the Subject: Rexroth’s Argument with the ‘Corn Belt Metaphysicals’ and the Postromantic Lyric”

Rachelle K. Lerner, “Creative Crossfires: Kenneth Rexroth and Some Third Generation American Poets”

Panel 27E: The New Poets of England and America Revisited

Chair: Camille Roman

Colin A. Clarke, “In the Ward: The Poetry of Confinement in the 1950s”

Jane Hedley, “‘I made you to find me’: Authority, Experience, and the Gender of Poethood”

Elizabeth Joyce, “Self-Portraits of the Decade: Poetic and Psychoanalytic”

Panel 27G: Jack Kerouac

Chair: Albert Gelpi

Nancy Grace, “Blowing Deep: The Lyric Roots of Jack Kerouac’s Poetry”

Ronna C. Johnson, “Unbordering Form: Beat Dissolutions of Genre in Jack Kerouac”

Panel 27H: John Montague, Kenneth Patchen, and Robert Lowell

Chair: Laura Cowan

George Layng, “The New American Poetry from Ireland: John Montague and The Rough Field”

Mark Dunphy, “Kenneth Patchen’s Cacademic Heroics”

Elizabeth Gregory, “‘Confession’ in the Poetry of Robert Lowell”

Session #28, Reading: Samuel Menashe

Chair: Barry Ahearn

Session #29, Plenary

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Marjorie Perloff, “1956: Re-Aligning the Things of This World”

Session #30, Reading: Edward Dorn

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Session #31, Reading: Theodore Enslin

Chair: Mark Nowak

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Session #32, Panels

Panel 32A: Ginsberg and Others

Chair: Alicia Ostriker

David Zucker, “Dugan’s and Ginsberg’s Anti-Poetry”

Andrew Rosen, “Against the Monolith: Berryman, Lowell, and Ginsberg”

Lily Phillips, “Legislating ‘Howl’: The International Dimension of the Censorship Trial”

Panel 32B: Marianne Moore, Robert Duncan, and Others

Chair: Kathleen Lignell

Heather White, “Marianne Moore: Tones and Tactics”

Donna Hollenberg, “‘First Permission’: Robert Duncan’s Poems for H.D.”

Steven Meyer, “Reading Gertrude Stein in the 1950s: Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, James Merrill”

Panel 32C: Gary Snyder

Chair: Bernard Quetchenbach

Louis H. Palmer III, “The Labor of Autobiography: Gary Synder’s Political Turn”

Richard Deming, “The Form that Vision Takes: Gary Synder’s Myths and Texts”

Karen Bartlett, “Zenki and Muga in the Poetics of Gary Synder and Lucien Stryk”

Panel 32D: John Cage and Jackson Mac Low II

Chair: Joan Retallack

Tony Brinkley, “John Cage and the Politics of an Open Form”

Ming-Qian Ma, “Chance Operation, Mesostic Method, and the Cagean Aesthetic of Counter-Memory”

William R. Howe, “What’s So Great About Intentionality: or The Poetry of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low”

Panel 32E: The Fifties as Resource and Ancestor for Contemporary Poetics

Chair: Linda A. Kinnahan

Lynda Szabo, “‘The Muses are little female fellows’: Adrienne Rich, Lyn Hejinian, and Hannah Weiner”

Elizabeth Savage, “‘Some Manuscripts and Versions’: Susan Howe and Lorine Niedecker”

Ellen Smith, “‘Truth or Dare’ and the American Confessional: Offshoots from Lowell and Snodgrass”

Panel 32F: William Bronk, Samuel Menashe, and George Oppen

Chair: Colleen J. Hamilton

Barry Ahearn, “Introducing Samuel Menashe (Again)”

Burt Kimmelman, “The World(lessness) of George Oppen and William Bronk”

Session #33, Plenary

Chair: Aldon L. Nielsen

Lorenzo Thomas, “Afrocentric Modernism in Melvin B. Tolson’s Libretto for the Republic of Liberia”

Session #34, Panels

Panel 34A: Jack Spicer, Frank O’Hara, and Others

Chair: Beverly Rubin-Dolrup

Kevin Killian, “‘Faggot Vomit’: Jack Spicer versus ‘the Maidens,’ 1957-58”

Scott Penney, “Camp and the Sublime in Frank O’Hara’s ‘Biotherm’”

P. Michael Campbell, “Irony or Hyper-Sincerity?: Homosexuality and Poetry in the 1950s”

Panel 34B: Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

Chair: Richard Blevins

Robert J. Bertholf, “Robert Duncan’s Version of Charles Olson’s Vision”

Alex Irvine, “‘We Can Be Precise’: Charles Olson and the Language of Indeterminancy”

Libbie Rifkin, “‘Go Contrary, Go Sing’: Charles Olson’s Amateur Poetics”

Panel 34C: The School of Boston II

Chair: John Millett

Joseph Torra, “School of Boston 1950s”

Ed Foster, “Steven Jonas, On the Edge of Time”

Susan Vanderborg, “Unverting the Poet’s Community: Jack Spicer in Boston”

Panel 34D: Jackson Mac Low Reading

Videotape prepared for this conference

Chair: Joan Retallack

Panel 34E: Beats and Deadbeats

Chair: Andrew Analore

Terrell Crouch, “Thrilling the Trillings: Another Night at Columbia”

Michael Basinski, “FLOWER, FIST AND BESTIAL WAIL: Charles Bukowski’s First Poetics”

Matthew Sweney, “Pomes All Sizes: Kerouac’s Prosody”

Panel 34F: Wallace Stevens

Chair: Jeannine Johnson

Kenneth Rosen, “Wallace Stevens and the Pathos of Idealism”

Christian Moraru, “Ethical Vision and the Definition of Poetry in Wallace Stevens’s Esthetique du Mal’”

Panel 34G: Stanley Kunitz and Hayden Carruth

Chair: Kathleen Lignell

David Kellogg, “‘Shapes of Things Interior to Time’: Historicizing Stanely Kunitz’s Selected Poems”

William J. Lavigne, “Uncertain Refuge: The Poetics of Hayden Carruth’s ‘The Asylum’”

Session #35, Plenary

Chair: Burton Hatlen

Panel Discussion with Poets of the 1950s Generation, including:

Edward Dorn

Theodore Enslin

Samuel Menashe

Jerome Rothenberg

Armand Schwerner